Pete Doherty and Amy Winehouse left fans scratching their heads after posting a video showing them playing with baby mice.
The pair, both of whom have struggled with drug problems in the past two years, are seen in a blue-lit room showing a box containing around 30 mice to the camera.
They then pick up two or three of the mice and use them, it seems, as an outlet for their somewhat dazed and confused emotions.
"This is a dawning of a new mouse life," the pair sing, before Doherty treats the viewer to another dose of his acerbic wit: "Look at the wiggly wibble. Wiggly wibble!"
Later in the video he says one mouse "looks like [Razorlight frontman] Johnny Borrell when he's just got out of the bath".
Winehouse's own ramblings are much more personal.
"This one's got a message for Blake. Blake, please don't divorce mummy. She loves you loads," she says.
"If you divorce me, you love her. I'm only a day old. I don't know what I'm doing, but I know what love is."
"Awww," Doherty responds.
The two-minute clip appeared yesterday on video-posting website YouTube, where fans largely gave a negative response to the news.
Some were impressed by the "cute" mice but others said they were worried by the babies being handled by Winehouse and Doherty's undeniably unwashed fingers.
"Don't mice reject their children if humans handle them too much?" asked KateKennedy729, one of several raising the same concern.
Others appealed to the pair to recover from their drug problems.
Flobolobo pointed out that a "mumbling ramshackle haze of existence is hardly 'living the good life'", while re1d described the video as "so cute, like watching a car crash".
"I don't understand how you guys can even begin to think they're off drugs," commented zammit, while lheep's response was: "It's too heartbreaking to witness… you're just two kids in the end."
18/05/2008 09:37:32
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